He says "overpass", I say ...

[Victor Steinbok]

  Just to clarify--it was Joel's header.

     VS-)

On 7/12/2010 1:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Just joking, Victor. When I saw your subject line, the term used in
> Saint Louis way back when, "viaduct," just popped into my head. After
> many years of living among the freeways of California, I, too, have
> come to acknowledge the primacy of "overpass." At the relevant time in
> Saint Louis, there was no need for a word for what's now known as an
> "underpass."
>
> -Wilson
>

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